Visonaire x MINI: Sound

What’s that you say, you’ve made the complete switch from vinyl to digital with your music collection but something is missing. Maybe it’s your soul… or perhaps you’re feeling the void left by the lack of album art. What if we told you you could have your precious vinyl back complete with album art and no pesky, bulky, record player? With “Sound” a collaboration between Visionaire and MINI, the album is the art…The 4,000 limited edition case issue contains five vinyls, imprinted with customized images and 100 minutes of audio, from unreleased songs to spoken word recordings. The albums feature music from artists like U2 and Courtney Love and boasts design work from such luminaries as Karl Lagerfeld and Alexander McQueen…but that’s not all.

You won’t have to go to the attic and get out your old Technics turntable because the records come with their very own player in the form of a little MINI Clubman car. That’s right a little miniature battery operated car drives around the record to act as both the player and the sound system. If that doesn’t give new meaning to getting into the groove then I don’t know what does. However, If you can’t see yourself carrying around vinyl everywhere the cases will also contain CD editions of all the audio because you can’t really listen to vinyl on the run.